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Record ID: NMGW-CA3104
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy leaf-shaped blade (length 63mm, width 19mm, thickness 2mm, weight 7.9g). The edges are slightly bevelled and the blade has a very slight but relatively wide midrib. One end of the blade apparently tapers into a tang which is now largely missing. The blade is in poor condition, its tip is bent and its edges are badly damaged and notched. This damage makes it difficult to evaluate whether the apparent tang is a genuine feature or simply a fortuitous break. The blade may possibly be an example of a rare type of Early to Middle Bronze Age knife known as a Class I or …
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 24th March 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-B7F035
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mini terret dating to the late Iron Age to early Roman period. External diameter 19mm-20mm, internal diameter 10mm-11mm, thickness 3-4.5mm, maximum width of connecting bar 5mm, weight 4.6g. Thicker at pseudo-terminals. no evidence for wear facets; surface slightly pitted and abraded (probably corrosion and modern cleaning). Plano-convex in cross section i.e not cast in the round. A one piece casting. Ring slightly widens towards terminal. Not a symmetrical casting.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-B73563
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper alloy sheet, openwork decorative mount. The curvilinear mount it broken across its two rebated fixing holes and its other extreme. The upper surface of the mount is decorated with an incised design consisting of three infilled three-sided curvilinear panels. Dimensions 35.1 x 25.8 x 1.5mm weighing 4.9g. The two fixing holes (diameter c.2.5mm) are surrounded by circular rebatements (diameter c.7mm) which accommodated the heads of the fixing studs or rivets. Circular striations in the rebated parts of both fixing holes suggest that they were at least finished, if…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-B91647
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Copper Alloy Coin. Mid 2nd Century (?) As or Dupondius. Uncertain.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 4th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-B86FC3
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Butt fragment from a flat axe, flanged axe or palstave of indeterminate type and of Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age date, probably dated to c. 2,200 - 1,150BC. The axe is represented by the butt only, with a surviving length of 29.52mm and a weight of 31.4g. The butt is thin and tapers to an edge with a width of 30.04mm. The sides of the axe diverge slightly to the break where the axe has a width of 33.77mm. The sides are rounded across their thickness and there is no discernible evidence for flanges on the fragment. The axe has a maximum thickness at the break of 7.05mm. The fac…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2006
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-B7B192
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age Copper Alloy Coin. 'Trinorantes' TASCIOVANUS' copper alloy 'unit'. Geometric pattern, cross inside. Horse to left, pellet-in ring motif above. ('TASCI' to left - not visible) Mack 175; BM1709;VA 1812-1. Mid-Late 1st Century BC, weighing 0.89g.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-A7C035
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pilgrim’s ampulla of 14th to early 16th century date, c. 1350 – 1530 The ampulla is near-complete, missing the side loops and slight damage to the reverse face. The ampulla has a slightly distorted surviving length of 49.52mm and weighs 33.9g. The rim of the ampulla has a width of 26.78mm and remains closed. The sides of the neck are straight and converge towards the body. The remnants of the side loops are evident at the base of the neck. The base of the neck is defined by a horizontal band containing diagonal lines. The obverse of the ampulla is decorated with the…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-A747E6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver sterling imitation of Edwardian type in the name of John the Blind, King of Bohemia, count of Luxemburg (1309-1346). Crowned obverse (Mayhew 263, legend as 263a-d), dating to 1309-1346. Mint unknown. Mayhew (1983, 106) It weighs 1.23g
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-A63695
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward IV (AD 1461-83). Minted at Dublin. Suns and roses/ roses on cross.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2012
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Record ID: NMGW-A3AE52
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill type (Mackreth Group 5, flat wing ends type, Western Group), and of late1st the early 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete and is represented by the head and upper bow, with a surviving length of 26.34mm and a weight of 9.6g. The brooch employed a spring mechanism, secured by a Polden Hill type arrangement with a lug at the head to tension the chord. The wings have a width of 26.30mm, with oval terminals (8.6 x 6.3mm). The fronts of the wings are decorated with deep cast vertical ribs, comprising a rib at the terminal and a pair of …
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-8FF741
Object type: TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint assemblage, consisting of 509 pieces including leaf shaped arrowheads, arrowhead roughouts, knives, denticulated scrapers, scrapers, Ecaille Cores, single platform blade cores, multi-directional cores, core, blades, flakes, knapping debitage, natural stones, double platform blade cores, core rejuvination flakes, Natural flints, Awls, Utilized blades, Levallois flake, spall, natural quartz and a discoidal knife
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-8EC6E8
Object type: TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint assemblage, consisting of 55 pieces including a utilized blade, cooking pot body sherd, unfinished arrowhead, flakes, spalls, knapping debitage, natural flint, natural chert, gunflint, blades, retouched blade, core, scrapers, bifacially retouched flakes, leaf-shaped arrowhead, barbed and tanged arrowhead and knife or fabricator. Some of the flint is burnt.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-28AC12
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy asymmetrical buckle, probably of 17th century date The buckle is concave in profile with one rounded and one straight edge. The buckle frame has a length of 25.73mm, a width of 20.40mm and a depth of 6.99mm. The buckle employed a chape, wrapped around the integral bar with a slot to take the pin Iron corrosion around the slot suggests an iron pin. The terminal of the chape has been lost. The outside edges of the buckle are likely to have carried moulded decoration now lost. The buckle has a pale green surface and weighs 5.2g.
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-2853B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy buckle of 2nd or 3rd century AD date The buckle is incomplete, and is missing a little less than half of the buckle’s width. The buckle has a length of 45.83mm, a maximum surviving width of 29.83mm and weighs 5.4g. The buckle frame is of flat section with a thickness of 2.3mm. The outside edge of the frame is curved and extends into the interior of the frame with a C-scroll, terminating in circular knops either side of the recess for the pin. At the rear of the buckle is a rectangular loop, with a T-shaped aperture, to secure the strap. The front of the frame is d…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-24F646
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age (or Metal-Using Neolithic) copper flat axe, falling within Needham et al.'s (forthcoming) Class 2D, Type Halberton, or probably of Type Growtown / Milton Moss (following Schmidt and Burgess 1981). The axe is near-complete with only a little damage to the edges and has a length of 98.55mm and weighs 325.1g. The butt has suffered a little damage making the type identification difficult and slightly speculative, but appears to have been straight with a surviving width of 32.9mm and a thickness of 4.5mm. The sides of the axe are comparatively straight and are very slig…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-244305
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman clipped silver Siliqua of Valens (AD 364-78), VRBS ROMA, Trier mint, 367-75. RIC IX 27e/45b
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-12A821
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age copper alloy pin-head or head of a button-and-loop fastener, probably of 1st BC to 1st century AD date The pin has broken at the top of the shaft, with a surviving length of 14.02mm and a weight of 12.0g. The shaft is of oval section (4.57 x 3.84mm) and broadens to end in a circular collar (9.1mm diameter) on the rear of the head. The head comprises three hemispherical lobes of 10.6mm diameter and of 8.1mm height. Between each of the lobes is a small raised tricorne enhanced with punched circles. Each of the hemispherical lobes has a moulded collar around its base. The l…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-419561
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill type ((Mackreth Part 3, Group 4, flat wing ends) dating to the late1st - early 2nd century AD The brooch is incomplete, missing the leg, and has a surviving length of 32.09mm and weighs 9.8g. The brooch employed a spring mechanism secured with a Polden Hill lug type arrangement around a copper alloy axis bar. The wings have a width of 23.47mm. The terminals of the wings are angled to the rear. The fronts of the wings have a single vertical incised line at each end. The perforated lug to tension the chord widens and is incorporated into the…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2006
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-405301
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age iron bow brooch, possibly of La Tène III type and dated to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD The brooch is incomplete and is missing the leg and pin, with a surviving length of 37.28mm and a weight of 5.2g. The brooch was of a one-piece construction and made of iron rod of circular section. The spring has four coils with an internal chord (4.3mm diameter), passing beneath the head. The head has a width of 14.61mm. The bow curves gently from the head and is straight along the mid bow. The bow has a maximum surviving diameter of 5.40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3FE865
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast bronze strap fitting probably of Late Bronze Age date, c. 12th to 7th century BC The decorative strap fitting is circular and resembles a button with a diameter of 20.37 -20.97mm and a weight of 4.5g. The rear of the fitting has a central integral loop with a length of 10.17mm, a maximum width of 7.52mm (minimum width 3.17mm) and a depth of 3.68mm (2.3mm internal). The surface of the rear is coarse and unfinished. The rear is concave and displays a cast 'channel' for guiding a thin strap, the interior of the cannel is more even than the surrounding surface. The front of the fitti…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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